# tumulus
## English
### Etymology

From Latin tumulus (“mound, hill”), from tumeō (“I swell”). Doublet of tombolo.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈtjuːmjələs/
* (US) IPA: /ˈtuːmjələs/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

tumulus (plural tumuli)
* (archaeology) A mound of earth, especially one placed over a prehistoric tomb; a barrow.
** 1826, [Mary Shelley], chapter I, in The Last Man. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:They planted the cannon on the tumuli, sole elevations in this level country, and formed themselves into column and hollow square.
** 1898, Ernest Rhys, “The Lament for Urien from the Herbest”, in Welsh Ballads:The delicate white body will be covered to-day, The tumulus be reared, the green sod give way: And there, oh Cynvarch, thy son they will lay.
** 2004, Douglas Keister, Stories in Stone, Gibbs Smith, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 14:The tumulus is one of mankind's oldest burial monuments, dating back to 4,000 to 5,000 years B.C. […] Examples of tumuli can be seen peppering the landscape all over Western Europe.

#### Synonyms

* See burial mound § Synonyms

#### Derived terms

* Tumulus culture on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

#### Translations
## Latin
### Pronunciation

* (Classical Latin) IPA: /ˈtu.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪ʊmʊɫ̪ʊs̠]
* (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: /ˈtu.mu.lus/, [ˈt̪uːmulus]

### Etymology 1

From tumeō (“to swell”) +‎ -ulus. Cognates include Ancient Greek τύμβος (túmbos, “swell”).

#### Noun

tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension
* A heap of earth, mound, hill, knoll, hillock.
* A barrow, grave, tumulus.
    Synonym: sepulcrum

##### Declension

Second-declension noun.

##### Alternative forms

* tumolus

##### Derived terms

* tumulāmen
* tumulō
* tumulōsus

##### Related terms

* tumefaciō
* tumentia
* tumeō
* tumēscō
* tumidē
* tumiditās
* tumidō
* tumidōsus
* tumidulus
* tumidus
* tumor
* tumōrōsus

##### Descendants

* Catalan: túmul
* English: tumulus
* French: tumulus
* Galician: tumbo
* Italian: tumulo, tombolo
** → Catalan: tómbol
** → English: tombolo
* Portuguese: túmulo
* Romanian: tumul
* Spanish: tolmo, túmulo

##### References

* “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
* “tumulus”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
* tumulus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
* Carl Meißner, Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book‎, London: Macmillan and Co. on the edge of the hill: ad extremum tumulum
* “tumulus”, in The Perseus Project (1999) Perseus Encyclopedia‎
* “tumulus”, in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898), Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers

### Etymology 2

Ultimately from Arabic ثُمُن (ṯumun, “an eighth”). Compare Italian tomolo. Compare thuminus.
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

#### Noun

tumulus m (genitive tumulī); second declension
* (Medieval Latin) A unit of measure used in Sicily and Malta.

#### References

* tumulus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)

## Romanian
### Noun

tumulus m (plural tumuluși)
* Alternative form of tumul